...Jean-François Lyotard In this interview, originally given in 1988, Jean-François Lyotard discusses his then recently published book, Que Peindre? Adami, Arakawa, Buren ( What to Paint?: Adami, Arakawa, Buren ), situating it in the context of his broader interest in art and in terms of his...

... principles of postwar council estate planning and the later negative social and aesthetic stereotyping of these estates. Next, it discusses how Shaw's paintings appear to cope with this struggle by “spectrally wavering” between a visualization of Tile Hill as remembered from his childhood and as it is in its...

Figure 1 Murals in the 41 Squadron hangar, Coltishall. These were painted for a “welcome home” ball after the first Gulf War of 1991. Exhausted cartoon aircraft chase moustachioed missiles across rusting steel doors. Figure 1. Murals in the 41 Squadron hangar, Coltishall. These were painted for
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Figure 2 A painted wall mural, artist unknown, on the exterior of a local wall becomes the visible sign of a recent unbroken history of democratically elected communism in Kerala since 1957. Politics can still be seen manifested in the faded hammer-and-sickle murals of Fort Kochi, now covered
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Figure 4 Dragonfish , a painted wall mural by Indian artist Anpu Varkey, becomes a marker of India's absorption of contemporary, non-Indian art forms. It has a considered placement on the sea-facing wall of the eighteenth-century dockside store Pepper House, making the ancient fish motif
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Figure 5 This hand-painted statement, artist unknown, on the exterior of a local wall in Fort Kochi was surrounded by several commissioned street art projects and acted as a potent device when you consider what the Kochi-Muziris Biennale's legacy might be for local artists. During the festival
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Figure 2 A student protester throws a painting by Keresemose Baholo on a burning pile of other artworks at the University of Capetown on February 16, 2016. Photography by Ashleigh Furlong/GroundUp (CC BY-ND 4.0) Figure 2. A student protester throws a painting by Keresemose Baholo on a burning
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... figural is the matrix of Lyotard's broader notion of philosophy but also the sign of Gilles Deleuze's conception of painting and Paul Valéry's essays on drawing. In this sense, the figural is a generic concept applicable to all reflection on the sensible that temporarily abandons the structuring power of...

... paint for us an accurate picture of what a contemporary anti-utopian looks like. For Gray’s position, it appears, is that utopian beliefs lead to ridicule at best and totalitarian violence at worst. In this essay I shall argue that this position ignores many nuances of utopian thought that operate today...

Carrie Moyer, “Façade Project,” 2004. Wheatpasted silk-screened posters, unique painting on plywood. 9 × 18 feet total. Installed at Triple Candie, Harlem, NY. February - August 2004. Referring to the long history of the political murals that dot the urban landscape of New York City, “Façade
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